MIT's The Weather Oldest and Largest Today: Cloudy, rain 75°F (24°C) Tonight: Showers early, 53°F (12°C) Newspaper . _~;._ Tomorrow: Sunny, warm, 70°F (21°C) Details, Page 2 Volume 122, Number 24 Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Tuesday, May 7, 2002 New Eateries in Student Center FedEx Error Blamed To Replace Courses Toscanini's For Loss of '04 Rings , . By Eun J. Lee line store houses with no success. By Jennifer Krishnan accept the MIT card for payment, ers in Tennessee, Virginia, and NEWS EDITOR "If the rings are not found by NEWSED/TOR as will LaVerde's Market. North Carolina. The Class of 2004 held its ring this Wednesday, Jostens will rush The Alpine Bagel Co. and Alpine will move into the space Chris Sullivan, an Alpine repre- delivery event at the Museum of through the production of new sets Arrow Street Crepes will, soon be currently occupied by Courses sentative, described the company Science Sunday night, but hundreds of rings for the individuals whose among the dining options available Restaurant. MIT will be the com- as "a special cafe-bakery-bagel of sophomores are still without their rings got lost," Quattrochi said. at the Student Center. Both will pany's tenth location, joining oth- concept. At MIT, we'll [also] have Brass Rats because of a shipping These rings should be finished with- a large grill menu" and pizza. error. in two weeks, if necessary. Jostens "Better than 50 percent of Ring Committee member Dou- will rush the new rings, or the rings what's sold at Courses is burgers," glas 1. Quattrochi '04 said FedEx contained in the lost box if it is said Director of Campus Dining lost one of three boxes containing found, via FedEx to each individual. Richard D. Berlin III. "Alpine has class rings that were delivered to "We [members of the Ring a larger breadth ... and healthier Boston on Sunday. This box con- Committee] would prefer if the food." ._ tained all of the class rings belonging rings were delivered in person by "Our menu is naturally very to sophomores with surnames start- Jostens representatives because of low in fat," Sullivan said. Alpine ing with the letters "P" through "Z," security concerns for delivery of the also has "a lot of vegetarian and ring accessories for all students. valuable parcels," Quattrochi said. options. That's another demo- The box of missing rings was RingComm member Tina Shih graphic we serve very well," he lost while being delivered to repre- '04 said that Fed Ex is taking full said. sentatives of the manufacturer, responsibility for this mistake, but Berlin likened Alpine to the Jostens Inc., at a Boston hotel. An Jostens is also accepting responsi- food trucks in speed of service. unIaiown "Pat McLaughlin" signed bility for the incident. The new "The line is really long, but only for the box, according to FedEx rings will be remade at no additional takes three to five minutes," he records. cost to students. "I also encourage said. those students whose rings were lost Alpine will most likely be open Rings to be remade if not found to write to Jostens and request com- from 7 a.m. to midnight daily, Sul- Since it was discovered that the pensation for the error on their box was missing, the company has Dining, Page 15 searched its courier trucks and air- Brass Rat, Page 18 Faculty Hold Teach-in on Divestment To Build Support for Joint Campaign By Brian Loux cussed Israel's occupation of in the Middle East." NEWS EDITOR Palestinian territories and violence "That phrase is supposed to be Harvard and MIT faculty held a against Palestinians. the end all on discussion on "teach-in" yesterday in 26-100 to The petition, signed by students Israel," Gradzinsky said. "1 am draw support for a petition and faculty from both universities, here to say that it is not enough." demanding that both universities also demands that the U.S. govern- He argued that the three princi- divest from Israel and companies ment desist in the selling of arms ples that created Israel were the that sell arms to the country. to Israel. desire to be democratic, the desire The event was largely orga- to be Jewish, and the desire to be nized by MIT Professor of Brain Gradzinsky discusses democracy secure, citing the Israeli constitu- JONATHAN WANG-THE TECH and Cognitive Science Nancy G. Speakers included professors tion and quotes from former Israeli Ray Dacanay makes a crepe behind the counter of Arrow Street Kanwisher ' 80 and Harvard Pro- from MIT and Harvard, as well as Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. Crepes near Harvard Square. Dacanay's uncle owns the shop, which fessor Ken Nakayama, two of the Professor Y osef Gradzinsky from When these desires need to be bal- may open a new branch sharing space with Toscanini's in the Stu- four original drafters of the peti- Tel Aviv University, whose speech dent Center this fall. - tion. Many of the speakers dis- was entitled "The Only Democracy Divestment, Page 14 Walter A. Rosenblith Institute Professor Emeritus and former Provost Walter A. Rosenblith, died Wednesday of complications resulting from prostate cancer. He was 88 years old. Rosenblith was one of the first to use computers and mathemati- cal models to study the brain as a biophysical information handling system. He helped found the Program in Science, Technology and Society, and later joined the STS faculty. He came to MIT in 1951 as an associate professor in Course VI, then known as the Department of Electrical Engineering. By 1975 he was named an institute professor, and served as chair of the faculty from 1967 to 1969. Rosenblith provost in 1970s Rosenblith served as provost from 1971 to 1980, working to. develop MIT's programs in health sciences and biomedical engi- neering and developing collaborations with other universities and medical institutions. - Howard W. Johnson, president from 1966 to 1971, said, "Walter Rosenblith was a noble academic whose enthusiastic participation for 50 years in MIT life as institute professor, faculty chair, provost, and, most of all as a rare human being will leave an indelible mark on the Institute." . FRANK DABEK-THE TECH Career began in Europe The 2002-2003 Undergraduate Association officers are sworn in at last night's UA meeting by out- Born in Vienna, Austria on Sept. 21, 1913, Rosenblith studied in .going speaker Victoria K. Anderson "02. From left to right are Parol Deora '04 (vice president), JosI- ah D. Seale '03 (president), Benjamin J. Zeskind '03 (speaker), and Yu.Ung Wong '04 (vice chair). Ro~enblith, Page 1S The MIT Wind Ensemble wowed Comics OPINION World & Nation 2 its audience with a program of Akshay Patil discusses the obses- Opinion 4 modern music Friday night. sion with the Brass Rat. Arts 6 Events Calendar J1 Sports 20 . Page 7 Page 9 Page 5 Page 2 THE TECH May 7, 2002 WORLD & NATION Judge Orders Law to Give Deposition SN.-ClAI. TO TIlE W,SIIIXGTON !'OST u.s. Underestimated Cuban A Massachusetts judge Monday ordered Boston Cardinal Bernard F. Law, the nation's senior Roman Catholic prelate, to give a video- taped deposition Wednesday in the civil suit brought by sexually Weapons, Bush Official Says abused victims of defrocked priest John J. Geoghan. If he appears as scheduled, Law would be the first American car- By Paul Richter have given this danger littt'e empha- logical warfare programs in those dinal to be deposed in such a case, according to Bill Ryan, LOS ANGELES TIMES sis. And they have not indicated that states." spokesman for the U.S. Conferenc~ of Catholic Bishops. WASHINGTON Cuba might be an important source Bolton did not specify which The court order comes just days after the Archdiocese of Boston A senior Bush administration of germ-weapon knowledge for nations Cuba might have aided, but abruptly backed out of a multimillion-dollar settlement with 86 vic- official said Monday that U.S. lead- other countries. he noted that Cuban President Fidel tims of Geoghan, now serving a nine to 10-year prison sentence after ers have underestimated the security The new warnings brought Castro visited Iran, Syria and Libya being convicted in January of a single count of child molestation. The threat posed by Cuba, and he issued charges from some analysts that the last year. Bolton said that, at Tehran archdiocese's finance council rejected the agreement, estimated to be a specific warning about the coun- administration was trying to University, Castro told an audience: worth between $15 million and $30 million, because it feared there try's biological weapons program. strengthen its political support from "Iran and Cuba; in cooperation with would not be enough money to settle additional sex abuse cases. U.S. officials believe that Cuba anti-Castro Cubans in Florida and each other, can bring America to its Law, who has acknowledged that he transferred Geoghan to new a has "at least a limited offensive bio- o.ther conservatives. Florida is knees." new parish after learning of the allegations against him, has not been logical warfare research and devel- important to President Bush's re- . U.S. officials have underestimat- questioned in conjunction with the suits involving Geoghan. He had opment effort," said John R. Bolton, election prospects, and his brother, ed the threat posed by Cuba in large been scheduled four times to be deposed but each time the deposition undersecretary of state for arms Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, is facing an part because of the work of Cuban was postponed.